BENGALURU, INDIA—India is home to a flourishing community of predatory journals: outlets that masquerade as legitimate scientific publications but publish papers with little or no peer review while charging authors hefty fees. Many observers assumed that such bottom feeders were mostly attracting papers of dubious scientific value, if not plagiarized or fraudulent reports, from institutions in academia’s outer orbits. But a new analysis has found that many of the weak papers in predatory journals are coming from top-flight Indian research institutions.
The finding has turned the spotlight on an academic culture in India that tends to prize quantity of publications over quality when evaluating researchers. This is an especially big problem in the life sciences, and it will take time to fix, says K. Vijayraghavan, the secretary of India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in New Delhi, which funded some of the research that ended up in predatory journals. “Biology, in general, has become ghastly, in that people are chasing the metrics,” he says. “If you chase these surrogate markers of success instead of science, we have a problem.”
Recent revelations have pointed to a symbiotic relationship in India between questionable publishers and mediocre researchers. In 2013, a Science investigation traced the publishers and editors of scores of predatory journals to India. And last year, a team reported in BMC Medicine that of a selection of 262 authors published in predatory journals, 35% were Indian.
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Dr Andrew Wakefield on the covid vax and its implications concerning childhood vax malfeasance
Covid vax harms detailed — Dr Clare Craig
One thing I love about her is she came out early on covid vax harms but was very reserved in the way she spoke, in keeping with British manners. As time has gone on she has become much stronger in her language and delivery because the data warrants it. When a mild-mannered, honest and reserved person gets louder and stronger, you better pay attention. This change in Craig alone is one of the most convincing indictments of the covid vax there is. Filing this one under ‘psycholinguistics’ as well as ‘medical science’ and ‘anti-science’ (which the plandemic and vaxxes are). ABN
The worst part is this 22-sigma event has not ended
Peter Hotez using fictional death estimates to conceal covid vax profound harms
Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is ‘Inventing’ Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
Shocking evidence has emerged that points to the U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations. The explosive allegations have been made by citizen journalist Ray Sanders and sent to the new Labour Science Minister Peter Kyle MP. Following a number of Freedom of Information requests to the Met Office and diligent field work visiting individuals stations, Sanders has discovered that 103 stations out of 302 sites supplying temperature averages do not exist. “How would any reasonable observer know that the data was not real and simply ‘made up’ by a Government agency,” asks Sanders. He calls for an “open declaration” of likely inaccuracy of existing published data, “to avoid other institutions and researchers using unreliable data and reaching erroneous conclusions”.
Japan Issues Red Alert Over ‘Shocking’ Surge in Deadly Diseases Among Covid-Vaxxed
Scientists in Japan have issued a chilling warning after uncovering direct links between Covid mRNA “vaccines” and “shocking” surges in dozens of deadly diseases.
Japanese researchers have issued a red alert to warn the public that Covid mRNA injections are now “affecting every possible aspect of human pathology.”
The nation’s leading scientists are raising the alarm after linking Covid mRNA shots to soaring cases of deadly diseases that are being recorded all around the world.
Investigations by Japan’s leading experts have now linked the mRNA injections to staggering surges in over two hundred dangerous and deadly diseases.
The findings were laid out in a 93-minute press conference with leading scientists and a top Japanese government lawmaker,
Professor Emeritus Masanori Fukushima of Kyoto University warns that the breadth of the harms is “unprecedented” for medical treatments.
“A systematic review of the literature has unveiled some shocking information,” Fukushima told reporters.
“Thousands of papers have reported side effects after vaccination, affecting every possible aspect of human pathology, from ophthalmology to psychiatry,” he said.
Megyn Kelly telling the truth about transgender madness
Much like covid, this issue is top-down, coming from professional organizations and government. It is not only madness on the ground, it also has the very strong appearance of being an act of asymmetric warfare against the American people. Mass immigration also has this appearance, as do many other US policies or allowances like the opium massacre which has transmogrified into the Fentanyl massacre. I am resigned to us having an elite but not a dirty, smelly, vicious and nasty elite full of cabalistic shitheads and perverts. ABN
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